Word: lillehei
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...Lillehei took 17 minutes to close the opening in Gregory's heart, believes it is the first time this delicate operation had been done with the heart in plain view and "dry," though still beating because its muscle was getting a full blood supply. Gregory stood the operation well but died a few days later of pneumonia (to which children with such heart defects are especially liable...
...daring technique of "controlled cross transfusion" as a possible aid in heart operations had been under study for years by a team of eleven Minneapolis doctors, headed by Surgeon Clarence Walton Lillehei. Not until six weeks ago did the Minneapolis doctors, finally satisfied that they had taken every precaution possible against its many dangers, feel ready to try it. Their first patient was Gregory Glidden, 13 months, who had an opening between the ventricles of his heart. The donor's blood had to match the baby's, and the doctors decided that his father's was suitable...